My years '30 Beau Brownie again...
The beau Brownie is a beautiful (as the name suggests :-)) small camera, made from 1930 till 1933. It has only one shutterspeed en 3 apertures and takes eight 6x9 images on 120 film. The two viewfinders, one for portrait- and one for landscape-oriëntation, are very very small. It's really hard to compose your image. The lens is a fixed focus, uncoated doublet. The image-quality is not excellent but not too bad either.
Film: Ilford FP4+@125.
I used the middle aperture, said to be about F/16.
Semi-stand developement at home with Rodinal: pre-soak for 2 minutes, Rodinal 1:125 at 20C for 1 hour, inversions first 30 seconds, then only one inversion after half an hour.
My years '30 Beau Brownie again...
The beau Brownie is a beautiful (as the name suggests :-)) small camera, made from 1930 till 1933. It has only one shutterspeed en 3 apertures and takes eight 6x9 images on 120 film. The two viewfinders, one for portrait- and one for landscape-oriëntation, are very very small. It's really hard to compose your image. The lens is a fixed focus, uncoated doublet. The image-quality is not excellent but not too bad either.
Film: Ilford FP4+@125.
I used the middle aperture, said to be about F/16.
Semi-stand developement at home with Rodinal: pre-soak for 2 minutes, Rodinal 1:125 at 20C for 1 hour, inversions first 30 seconds, then only one inversion after half an hour.